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Inside the Trump-Musk Breakup

The president tried to give his billionaire benefactor a dignified exit. It didn’t work.

Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think

Here’s how to make the most of it.

What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works

Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.

Trump Is Wearing America Down

Less than a decade ago, the Trump administration's travel ban sparked an outcry. Today, people seem far more willing to accept such a policy.

Sometimes a Parade Is Just a Parade

Not everything the Trump administration does is a threat to democracy.

Money Is Ruining Television

Depictions of extreme wealth are everywhere on the small screen and, well, it’s all quite boring.

The Biden Investigation Is a Path to Even Greater Lawlessness

The president is not just abusing the immunity that the Supreme Court granted him. He might be seeking to expand it.

An Innocent Abroad in Mark Twain’s Paris

My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, existential dread, and a rowboat.

What the Fastest-Growing Christian Group Reveals About America

Instead of killing off faith, modernity has supercharged some of its most dramatic manifestations.

First Wave at Omaha Beach

An account of the “epic human tragedy” that unfolded when Allied troops landed on the shores of Normandy on D-Day

Every Election Is Now Existential

A nationalist’s narrow victory in Poland offers a preview of many knife-edge contests to come, all across the democratic world.

How Air-Conditioning Built Our Reality

The AC was not only a brilliant innovation; it changed the course of human life.

Trump’s Amplifier Administration

Thomas Friedman discusses the chaos of the president’s conflicts—and how the wider world is viewing the instability.

The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong

Cosmologists are fighting over everything.

Fast Times and Mean Girls

What the great teen movies tell us about American adolescence

When Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Tenure Started Going Sideways

The defense secretary annoyed Donald Trump with a favor for Elon Musk. Hegseth’s problems only grew from there.

Will The Washington Post Embrace the AI Slush Pile?

Reducing the role of human editorial judgment is the last thing opinion journalism needs.